Flora Macivor's Song Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFF GGHH DDII JJII KKLL IIII IIDD MMDD IIJL DDJJ JJII NOPP DDDD| There is mist on the mountain and night on the vale | A |
| But more dark is the sleep of the sons of the Gael | A |
| A stranger commanded it sunk on the land | B |
| It has frozen each heart and benumb'd every hand | B |
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| The dirk and the target lie sordid with dust | C |
| The bloodless claymore is but redden'd with rust | C |
| On the hill or the glen if a gun should appear | D |
| It is only to war with the heath cock or deer | D |
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| The deeds of our sires if our bards should rehearse | E |
| Let a blush or a blow be the meed of their verse | E |
| Be mute every string and be hush'd every tone | F |
| That shall bid us remember the fame that is flown | F |
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| But the dark hours of night and of slumber are past | G |
| The morn on our mountains is dawning at last | G |
| Glenaladale's peaks are illumined with the rays | H |
| And the streams of Glenfinnan leap bright in the blaze | H |
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| O high minded Moray the exiled the dear | D |
| In the blush of the dawning the Standard uprear | D |
| Wide wide on the winds of the north let it fly | I |
| Like the sun s latest flash when the tempest is nigh | I |
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| Ye sons of the strong when that dawning shall break | J |
| Need the harp of the aged remind you to wake | J |
| That dawn never beam'd on your forefathers' eye | I |
| But it roused each high chieftain to vanquish or die | I |
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| O sprung from the Kings who in Islay kept state | K |
| Proud chiefs of Clan Ranald Glengarry and Sleat | K |
| Combine like three streams from one mountain of snow | L |
| And resistless in union rush down on the foe | L |
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| True son of Sir Evan undaunted Lochiel | I |
| Place thy targe on thy shoulder and burnish thy steel | I |
| Rough Keppoch give breath to thy bugle's bold swell | I |
| Till far Coryarrick resound to the knell | I |
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| Stern son of Lord Kenneth high chief of Kintail | I |
| Let the stag in thy standard bound wild in the gale | I |
| May the race of Clan Gillean the fearless and free | D |
| Remember Glenlivat Harlaw and Dundee | D |
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| Let the clan of grey Fingon whose offspring has given | M |
| Such heroes to earth and such martyrs to heaven | M |
| Unite with the race of renown'd Rorri More | D |
| To launch the long galley and stretch to the oar | D |
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| How Mac Shimei will joy when their chief shall display | I |
| The yew crested bonnet o'er tresses of grey | I |
| How the race of wrong'd Alpine and murder d Glencoe | J |
| Shall shout for revenge when they pour on the foe | L |
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| Ye sons of brown Dermid who slew the wild boar | D |
| Resume the pure faith of the great Callum More | D |
| MacNeil of the islands and Moy of the Lake | J |
| For honour for freedom for vengeance awake | J |
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| Awake on your hills on your islands awake | J |
| Brave sons of the mountain the frith and the lake | J |
| 'Tis the bugle but not for the chase is the call | I |
| 'Tis the pibroch s shrill summons but not to the hall | I |
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| 'Tis the summons of heroes for conquest or death | N |
| When the banners are blazing on mountain and heath | O |
| They call to the dirk the claymore and the targe | P |
| To the march and the muster the line and the charge | P |
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| Be the brand of each chieftain like Fin's in his ire | D |
| May the blood through his veins flow like currents of fire | D |
| Burst the base foreign yoke as your sires did of yore | D |
| Or die like your sires and endure it no more | D |
Sir Walter Scott
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